JOHN HERSCHEL GLENN, JR.

John H. Glenn, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret.), was born July 18, 1921,
in Cambridge, Ohio. As a child, he moved with his parents to New
Concord, Ohio. Glenn was assigned to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
in April 1959 after his selection as a Project Mercury
Astronaut. Glenn resigned from the Manned Spacecraft Center on January
16, 1964. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in October 1964 and
retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1965. He was business
executive from 1965 until his election to the United States Senate in
November 1974, where he now serves.

Glenn is 5 feet 10-1/2 inches tall, weighs 168 pounds and has
green eyes and red hair. His wife is the former Anna Margaret Castor,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Castor of New Concord. The Glenns have
two children: John David, born December 13, 1945; and Carolyn Ann,
born March 19, 1947. Glenn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Glenn of
New Concord, are deceased.

On February 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship
7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United
States. Launched from Cape Canaveral (recently re-named Cape Kennedy),
Florida, he completed a successful three--orbit mission around the
earth, reaching a maximum altitude (apogee) of approximately 16Z
statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles
per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed in an area
in the Atlantic approximately 800 miles southeast of Cape Kennedy in
the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. He landed 41 miles west and 19
miles north of the planned impact point. The time of the flight from
launch to impact was 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds. Prior to his
flight, Glenn had served as backup pilot for Astronauts Shepard and
Grissom.

When the astronauts were given special assignments to ensure
pilot input into the design and development of spacecraft and flight
control system in January 1963, Project Apollo became Glenn's
specialty area.

Glenn attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord, where
he also attended Muskingum College. He entered the Naval Aviation
Cadet Program in March 1942 and was graduated from this program and
commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943. After ad-vanced training, he
joined Marine Fighter Squadron 155 and spent a year flying F4U
fighters in the Marshall Islands.

During his World War II service, he flew 59 combat
missions. After the war, he was a member of Fighter Squadron 218 on
North China patrol and had duty in Guam. From June 1948 to December
1950 Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus
Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare Training at
Quantico, Virginia. In Korea he flew 63 missions with Marine Fighter
Squadrons 311, and 27 while an exchange pilot with the Air Force in
F-86 Sabrejets. In the last nine days of fighting in Korea, Glenn
downed three MIG's in combat along the Yalu River.

After Korea, Glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air
Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. After graduation, he was
project officer on a number of aircraft. He was assigned to the
Fighter Design Branch of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (now Bureau of
Naval Weapons) in Washington from November 1956 to April 1959, during
which time he also attended the University of Maryland.

Glenn has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on five
occasions, and holds the Air Medal with 18 Clusters for his service
during World War II and Korea. Glenn also holds the Navy Unit
Commendation for service in Korea, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal,
the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the China
Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service
Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit
Citation, the Navy's Astronaut Wings, the Marine Corps' new insignia
(an Astronaut Medal), and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

In July 1957, while project officer of the F8U, he set a
transcontinental speed record from Los Angeles to New York, spanning
the country in 3 hours and 23 minutes. This was the first
transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.

Glenn received his B.S. degree in engineering from Muskingum
College, New Concord, Ohio. Muskingum College also awarded Glenn an
honorary doctor of science degree in engineering. He has received
honorary doctor of engineering degrees from Nihon University in Tokyo,
Japan, Wagner, and New Hampshire Colleges.

Glenn has more than 5,455 hours of flying time, including 1,900
hours in jet aircraft.